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#### Using Auto Insert Moves

Use this documentation if you use Operation | Graphic Display Window | Auto Insert Moves |Preview. If you are using Legacy, see "Using Auto Insert Moves (Legacy)".

This procedure helps you insert safe clearance moves for your probe between all features or some features in your measurement routine. This procedure uses information discussed in the "Auto Insert Moves" subtopic in the "Clearance Moves Menu Items" topic above. Refer to that subtopic if you need more information on anything in this procedure.

1. If you want to insert moves between all the features, do not select any features from the Edit window. Then continue with step 3.

2. If you want to insert moves between a range of features, from the Edit window select those features. Then continue with step 3.

3. Choose Operation | Graphic Display Window | Clearance Moves | Auto Insert Moves. The software opens the Auto Create Clearance Moves dialog box. The dialog box selects either All Features or Selected features based on what you chose in steps 1 or 2.

Auto Create Clearance Moves dialog box

4. From the Auto Create Clearance Moves dialog box, define the Insert clearance moves offset.

5. If you want to delete all existing moves in your measurement routine before this routine inserts new move commands, move the Delete existing moves switch to on.

6. If you need to make changes to the Advanced Settings, expand Advanced Settings, and make your changes.

7. Click OK to start the move insertion process. The software's algorithm calculates and generates safe moves between the features. Once it finishes, it shows a Safe Moves Insertion Report dialog box.

You can press ESC at any time during the generation process to cancel the process and remove any moves the software inserted.

8. From the Safe Moves Insertion Report dialog box, hover you pointer over the items to review the results. Then click OK to close the dialog box.

Safe Moves Insertion Report dialog box

If the Safe Moves Insertion Report failed to find a solution between features, you may need to increase the Bounding box offset size under Advanced Settings. You may also need to increase the solution times. You can do that by increasing the Minimum solution time (sec) and Maximum solution time (sec) values.
If the results say you have an invalid start or target command position, this may be due to an incorrect probe tip assigned to measure those commands.

Diagram of MOVE/POINT Calculations

This diagram shows where PC-DMIS calculates a MOVE/POINT command between two hits:

- Hit1 - The last hit

- P1 - Offset point from Hit1 in vector direction

- Hit2 - The new hit

- P2 - Offset point from Hit2 in vector direction. This is the created MOVE/POINT.

- Yellow Plane - The plane through P1

- Blue Plane - The plane through P2

- P1’ - Projected P1 in the vector direction of P2

- P2’ - Projected P2 in the vector direction of P1

- PS - Symmetry Point between P1’ and P2’: This is the new move point.

If the angle between the vector of Hit1 and the vector of Hit2 is bigger then 150°, no move point is needed.